LLMs aren't magic, there's nothing they can do to persuade people to do weapons testing, it's an absurd scenario.
If Putin can persuade/bribe/blackmail people to fly drones around European airports, then why wouldn't an LLM be able to do similar things?
The human tendency to want to finish things in a fraction of a second will definitely take us there.
It feels like I don’t understand your definition of “persuade”, because the notion that people cannot be persuaded of things via reports and flashy animations is to me, absurd.